Chinese sports always can't avoid the law of yin and yang, and the same is true for basketball projects, and the performance of the Chinese men's basketball team is inferior to that of the women's basketball team. The men's basketball team has produced a Yao Ming and become the top pillar, so does the women's basketball team have such a flag athlete?
The answer is yes, that is Miao Lijie.
Miao Li was born in a family that was not wealthy in Bin County, Harbin, and she had an elder brother and sister on top, and was the youngest child in the family. Despite her modest family conditions, she has been pampered at home since she was a child.
Miao Lijie's personality really does not look like a girl, on the contrary, she prefers the game of boys. To say that she went to the road to basketball was still influenced by her brother. Her second brother was very fond of basketball in middle school, and under the influence of her second brother, Miao Lijie also slowly fell in love with this sport, and with his outstanding basketball talent, he stepped onto the career path step by step.
In China, parents who are not athletes or are engaged in sports-related work generally do not want their children to engage in sports work, especially professional athletes. Finding a decent clerical job is the desire of most parents in our country, so when Miao Lijie said that he wanted to take the professional basketball path, his family was very opposed. Who wants their children to sweat and train to fight injuries, let alone a girl?
Speaking of this, I still want to thank Miao Lijie's second brother, who is the only person in the family who supports Miao Lijie's career. Of course, these are only external factors, internal factors or Miao Lijie herself, her firmness and dedication to basketball touched her family, and her talent is also visible to the naked eye. In the end, the parents fulfilled their daughter's wish and sent her to Harbin for professional training.
Miao Lijie deeply knows how difficult it is for her family to send her for training, and how much effort it takes from her parents. Not only that, after the eldest brother who was a soldier in the family was demobilized, the first thing he did was to visit his little sister and give her all his money, hoping that she could live a little better and keep up with nutrition.
Seeing that her family attaches so much importance to herself, Miao Lijie has practiced harder on the training ground, and she must use good grades to repay her family's support and help to her. So no matter how hard the training was, she could always stick with it and never wanted to give up.
In the training, Miao Lijie's ball quotient is well reflected, she knows where her strengths are and what her weaknesses are. Miao Lijie has a good sense of basketball smell, has a good sense of rhythm, passes and the overall situation is also excellent, the only drawback is that the body is not so tough.
But physical fitness can be completely practiced, so in order to make his body stronger, Miao Lijie will go to the gym to practice strength as soon as he has time, and if he does not work hard, he will "suffer losses" on the field.
With his innate talent and acquired efforts, Miao Lijie has made great progress and achieved very eye-catching results. Soon gained the favor of the national team, in 1997, Miao Lijie entered the national team and gradually grew into the core. From the beginning of 2004 to the Olympic Games in 2012, Miao Lijie has always been the ace of the Chinese women's basketball team.
She and Chen Nan formed the "Second Elder of Xuan Di", and helped the Chinese women's basketball team win countless honors in the past ten years, including the Asian Games champion, the Asian Championship champion, the fourth place in the Beijing Olympics, as a defender player, she has always been the main scorer of the team.
Friends who like basketball know that the NBA symbolizes the highest level of men's basketball in the world, and the WNBA is also the highest temple of women's basketball in the world. Wanting to enter here to play is not a simple thing, because of Miao Lijie's outstanding strength, the wnba threw an olive branch to Miao Lijie. In March 2005, Miao Lijie officially signed a contract with the Sacramento Monarchs, becoming the third Chinese player to enter the WNBA and becoming a club teammate of "basketball goddess" Sui Feifei.
The team is still very happy about Miao Lijie's arrival, because Miao Lijie's performance in international competitions is not weaker than other international players who play in the WNBA. In this regard, the team's head coach said:
"In the coming season, Miao Lijie will give us the help we need, plus Sui Feifei, we now have the first two scorers of the Chinese women's basketball team, and we are eager to get them at the beginning of the training camp."
Miao Lijie's influence on basketball is not limited to the field, she is also a basketball player with a very sense of mission and responsibility. Dare to speak out about some people and things in the basketball world that are unfair, unjust, and not conducive to the development of basketball.
In 2013, Miao Lijie criticized the local leaders' treatment of athletes crossing rivers and demolishing bridges, rabbits and dead dogs cooking, which is almost the pain of most athletes. When they have the ability, local leaders squeeze and force the competition. When they get older, their athletic performance declines, and they are ruthlessly abandoned. Miao Lijie dared to fight against such a trend, and did not buy the face of the so-called leader at all, and what to say, revealing the tough character of women in northeast China.
Miao Lijie once said:
"The sad thing about athletes is that when you can still get results for a certain place, he will try his best to get all the leaders to speak up and find various ways to threaten you." When you can't fight, who you look for, no one pays attention to you. Say there is difficulty, have you ever thought about the difficulties of athletes? ”
Later, it was learned that it was Miao Lijie who did not complete the original task of the national transportation, so the local sports bureau refused to honor the treatment negotiated between the two sides. In fact, we should understand the difficulties of athletes, who can guarantee that they will be able to win the championship? Who can guarantee that you will be in good shape? As strong as Kobe Bryant and James, there are also times when there are folding finals. Therefore, Miao Lijie felt that he did not receive the respect he deserved afterwards and began to denounce such a phenomenon.
What I didn't expect was that after Miao Lijie left the original unit, his state immediately warmed up, and he could still play a brilliant result in the league. Seeing that her state has returned, the original unit has begun to play Miao Lijie's idea again, hoping that she will represent the team again in the National Games. This time Miao Lijie solemnly rejected them, since you don't respect me, why should I fight for your life again?
In 2014, Miao Lijie, who has played in professional basketball for many years and created countless honors for the Chinese women's basketball team, chose to retire, and after retiring, she did not leave basketball immediately, she became the manager of the Shenbu women's basketball team. Later, the Shenbu women's basketball team merged with the Bayi women's basketball team, and Miao Lijie stepped down as the manager.
After retiring from the army, we found that Miao Lijie was no longer like a boy, but began to dress himself up carefully. It can be seen from this that Miao Lijie's retirement life is very comfortable and happy.
At the same time, Miao Lijie's love life is also very smooth, and she has found an excellent husband. Today, Miao Lijie is both a soldier and a military sister-in-law. The two soon had a love affair and gave birth to a lovely daughter.
Throughout Miao Lijie's career, it must be admitted that she is a very good athlete, she can put the national team on her shoulders, forge ahead, and can also fight against unfair customs. Thanks to Miao Lijie for her contribution to the Chinese women's basketball team, I hope that her future life will be happier and more satisfying.